To demand the presence of (a person) before a tribunal; to ‘appeal’, to summon; to prosecute. Obsolete.

transitive. To order (a person) to appear before a court or other judicial authority at a specified time; to issue a writ of summons against (see s…

transitive. = summon, v. (in various senses).

To summon (a person) before a tribunal. In the University of Cambridge: To bring a student before the college court of discipline. (Not a…

transitive. To summon formally to appear, either as a principal or a witness, in a court of law, or to attend some comparable judicial or…

transitive. To summon, to cite (a person) formally; to call. Cf. cite, v. 1, 1c.

transitive. Chiefly Scottish and Irish English. To institute a process or legal action against, to sue, prosecute; to obtain a process or summons…

spec. To summon before a judge or tribunal, for trial or examination.

With the judge or tribunal understood: To summon, to cite; to summon on a charge of.

transitive. To cite, summon.

Scots Law. clepe and call: to summon, cite.

Law. (See quots.)

Scots Law. transitive. To cause or order (a person) to appear before a court; to summon, cite.

transitive. Law. To order (a person) to appear before a court or other judicial authority at a specified time; to issue a writ of summons against; to…